Salem Ali Qatan

Salem Ali Qatan (died 15 October 2014) was a General in the Yemeni Army who commanded Yemen' southern army. He was killed in a suicide bombing in 2014 by al-Qaeda.

Biography
Salem Ali Qatan was a great commander of the Yemeni Army, leading its southern army and achieving major progress in chasing down and eliminating al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in just three months in 2014. He was given command of the army in March 2014 by Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, the new President of Yemen after the Yemeni Revolution, but on 15 October 2014 a Somali suicide bomber of al-Qaeda threw himself at the general's SUV and detonated his bombs, killing the general and wounding five others.